Flock & ALPR Cameras in South Gate, California
Volunteers have reported 6 automated license plate readers in and around South Gate — cameras that log every passing plate with a time and location.
Jurisdiction · by recorded street address
The 6 cameras counted on this page are every reader mapped within about 20 kilometres of South Gate, so the count crosses municipal lines. By the street address recorded for each one, 5 of them sit inside South Gate itself.
The rest sit in Los Angeles (1).
Source: community-mapped camera data (OpenStreetMap, ODbL), with addresses resolved by Nominatim.
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No new reports near South Gate in the last 30 days — checked hourly, last checked Oct 7, 17:28 UTC. Cameras only get on the map when someone looks: be the one.
Where the cameras are in South Gate
The readers mapped around South Gate break down as 3 Flock Safety, 2 of unrecorded make, 1 Motorola Solutions. The first camera here was reported in Jul 2025; the most recent in Aug 2026.
- Tweedy Boulevard — 2 readers
- East 103rd Street — 1 reader
- San Gabriel Avenue — 1 reader
- San Carlos Avenue — 1 reader
- Long Beach Boulevard — 1 reader
South Gate CA PD and the sharing network
Per Flock’s own transparency portal, South Gate CA PD runs 10 cameras of its own, has logged 129 plate-database searches, has captured 638,341 vehicle records. Its network connects to 328 other agencies — a plate read here can surface in searches far beyond city limits.
Connected agencies include: Alameda County CA SO, Albany CA PD, Alhambra CA PD, Amador County CA Sheriff's Office, Anaheim CA PD, Anderson CA PD, Angels Camp CA PD, Antioch CA PD.
South Gate in the Los Angeles County picture
Los Angeles County has 2,677 reported cameras county-wide and ranks #1,106 of 3,222 U.S. counties for cameras per resident. That’s across 9,848,406 residents and 18,753 road miles. By road density that is 0.14 cameras per road mile, in the top 2.7% of counties nationally.
Where contributors recorded what a camera watches, the split here is 4 traffic.
Camera activity around South Gate, last 30 days
1 newly reported in our hourly change log for South Gate. Latest change logged Aug 24, 2026.
What’s watching South Gate
These aren’t red-light cameras. Automated license plate readers like Flock Safety’s photograph every plate that passes, log the time and place, and store it in a searchable database that’s often shared far beyond South Gate — here’s where that data goes. Counts cover cameras reported closest to South Gate (within ~20 km), so nearby towns share the same corridors. Spot one that’s missing? Report it on DeFlock.
What you can do in South Gate
Ask who approved these cameras, how long plate data is kept, and who it’s shared with. File a public records request, raise it at a council meeting, and see the full playbook on Take Action. Fighting this locally? Join or start a chapter and we’ll amplify you.
Not sure what one looks like? See photographs of installed cameras before you go looking.
Cameras near South Gate
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Camera reports: the open-source DeFlock project. Place data: GeoNames (CC BY).